KEY POINTS

  • 33-year-old Lucy Letby was convicted on Friday of killing seven babies in the neonatal unit of a hospital in England.

  • A handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after the arrest read “I killed them on purpose”.

  • Letby will be sentenced on Monday and faces a very long prison term, and possibly a rare full life sentence.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    To be fair the NHS and UK government were probably too busy attacking trans people to worry about an actual problem

    • dlpkl@lemmy.world
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      Literal infants were murdered and you found a way to shoehorn trans issues into the conversation. Congrats.

      • BilboBargains@lemmy.world
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        The NHS has been gutted by successive conservative governments. It’s a shadow of it’s former self and not really a health service at this point. This type of crime could happen anywhere but a lack of funding would surely also contribute to a lack of oversight.

    • scarabic@lemmy.world
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      I don’t know why you are being downvoted. You’re right. This is not just one evil person. It’s also a systemic failure of controls and oversight. This would not have been possible without a criminally negligent institution around the perpetrator.